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The Best Air-Filtering Indoor Plants

It’s all over TV, the internet and even many of your friends have succumb to the power of the “new year, new you” syndrome. It seems like everyone is trying to live a more healthy lifestyle.

Some may turn to healthier foods, others to joining a gym. But us gardeners, we turn to other ways of making our lives healthier. (Besides, we get healthier in Spring when we spend all of our days outside planting in our gardens.)

We add more plants! Indoor gardening is not only a good idea, but now research shows that tropical plants can help clear the air of toxins. Below are a few of the best plants NASA deemed the best at filtering the air: